The Practical Heart (Unabridged)

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The Practical Heart (Unabridged) Author: Allan Gurganus Format: Audio Download Audio Length: 15 hours and 8 min. Rating: Not rated Retail Price: $49.95 Price: $34.97 You save $14.98 (29%)       Publisher's Summary: The author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and Plays Well with Others returns with a collection of four insightful, loving novellas. The works trace how far people will go, through social pretense, sexual and racial secrets, to preserve their own dignity, a necessary mythology. In "The Practical Heart", the narrator's great-aunt, deprived of the family fortune, becomes the young boy's guide to life outside provincial North Carolina. In "Preservation News", a well-born matron eulogizes a gay preservationist who saved everything but his own life. "He's One, Too" chronicles an admired local businessman accused of child molestation. "Saint Monster" reveals a son's memories of a man truly Christ-like and therefore utterly endangered.

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